Dataset: seals_location satellite tracking
Deployment: LMG0205

Seal location data from satellite tags

Co-Principal Investigator:

Jennifer Burns (University of Alaska, Anchorage, UAA)

Daniel P. Costa (University of California-Santa Cruz, UCSC)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Foraging Ecology of Crabeater Seals (Lobodon Carcinophagus) (Crabeater Seal Foraging)

U.S. GLOBEC Southern Ocean (SOGLOBEC)

Coordinated Deployments:

NBP0204

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/451774/data

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Description

Tagged Seal Location Data from SOGLOBEC

For additional details on sampling and analytical methods see:
Burns, Jennifer M., Daniel P. Costa, Michael A. Fedak, Mark A. Hindell, Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Nicholas C. Gales, Birgitte McDonald, Stephan J. Trumble, Daniel E. Crocker, 2004. Winter habitat use and foraging behavior of crabeater seals along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Deep-Sea Research II vol 51, pp 2279-2303.

Links to companion seal files:
General Seal Background Information
Seal Physiology
Seal Morphometrics
Seal Predicted Mass

Contact Information:
Jennifer Burns, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alaska
Anchorage, AK 99508
907-786-1527
afjmb4@uaa.alaska.edu

Daniel P. Costa Ph.D.
Long Marine Laboratory
University of California
100 Shaffer Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Office: 831 459-2786
FAX: 831 459-3383
costa@biology.ucsc.edu

Last updated February 17, 2006

Methods & Sampling

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
ANT-0003956	NSF Antarctic Sciences
ANT-9981683	NSF Antarctic Sciences

Instruments

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Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
year	year cruise occurs		year
refno	Reference number consisting of: cruise number (cr1-4), seal name, and last two digits of year (i.e. cr1_Bertha_01)		no_bcodmo_term
pttno	PTTNo = ID of satellite tag. Not unique because ARGOS recycles them year to year.		pttno
month_gmt	month of year, reported as GMT		month_gmt
day_gmt	day of month (1-31) reported as GMT		day_gmt
time_gmt	time of day 24 hr. clock, reported as GMT	hhmm	time_gmt
qual_loc	Location quality as determined by Service Argos. Range (best to worst): 3 to -2		no_bcodmo_term
lat	Latitude of position fix judged to be the most likely, negative = South.	dec. degrees	lat
lon	Longitude of position fix judged to be the most likely, negative = West.	dec. degrees	lon
vmask	Initial screening of received positions. Positions judged unlikely if vmask .ne. 0		no_bcodmo_term
source_sat	Satellite that received signal from tag		no_bcodmo_term
speed_est	Estimated rate of travel between locations.Determined as the average of the distance to the previous location divided by thetime difference between locations and the distance to the next location divided by the time difference.		no_bcodmo_term
temp_tag	Sea surface temperature, determined by the tag. Only measured in 2001.	degrees C	no_bcodmo_term

Database

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Dataset: seals_location satellite tracking
Deployment: LMG0205

Tagged Seal Location Data from SOGLOBEC

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Dataset: seals_location satellite trackingDeployment: LMG0205

Tagged Seal Location Data from SOGLOBEC

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Dataset: seals_location satellite tracking
Deployment: LMG0205